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eather: Fair Home Edition LANS COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1941 ON STREETS 8c; NEWS STANDS 5c yo.1 N sizes u Step Fury f Attaek O 9 Vessels te CmitDiniye Aidl ilil: Vi l Cj I ' ''If - wf 1 American Ships Going To Aid In Danger Zone Action Taken Despite zamzam s Fate And Vichy Advice By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON. May 21 (U.R) United States merchant vessels are going into the hazardous serv ice of supply to British lorces in the Near East despite the fate of the Egyptian steamer Zamzam and emphatic advice from Vichy that the Dakar air base is at Germany's service. The maritime commission re vealed in a circular addressed to newspaper editors that it was go ing ahead with the Red sea serv ice. Elaborate plans for it had been made before these develop ments took place: 1. Germany threatened to sink vessels entering the Red sea in the interests of British forces in the Middle East. 2. French Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye told the state depart ment that all French air fields, including those in the colonies, were placed at Germany's dispos al by the armistice of last June. 3. Revelation that Germany sank the Egyptian liner Zamzam a month ago in the South Atlantic, alleging she carried contraband. The maritime commission cir cular requested a voluntary cen sorship of movements of mer chant vessels aiding the demo cracies and, specifically, regarding actual or intended sailings to the Red sea, China, Rangoon and feed er services. On May 9, before that request was made, the United Press revealed that 27 United States merchant vessels were be- ing assembled for the Red sea service. Germany suDsequenuy proclaimed a combat zone in that area. YVord Today- By UNITED PRESS LONDON Battle for Crete rages fiercely, with nazi reinforce ments reported to have raised number of air-borne troops to 11, 500. British say large number of foe wiped out or captured but ad mit that strong parties continue fight. Luftwaffe presses attacks on Crete and London reports say attempt to land reinforcements by sea has been made. BERLIN Germans report for midable force of aerial invaders holds important points on Crete. Nazis reveal passengers, including 140 Americans, rescued from Zam zam landed on French coast. Cases of 24 American ambulance drivers en route to aid "free France" forces in Africa studied to deter mine whether will be held as war prisoners. Others to proceed to neutral countries. CAIRO British press offensive Iraq, reportedly bombing the Mosul oil field sector. French army of perhaps 30,000 in Syria reportedly in poor condition with out necessary equipment. ROME Part of Greek cabinet reported leaving Crete for Cairo, Italians claim hit on British heavy cruiser. Hall-Comptori Bid On Airport Found Lowest Formal Award Of Contract To Take Place Later Pageant Poster Winners Named 1 the to t . ,,ia lrom otner years are snown lovel iw crown as "cnucKawaua reie, nexi their i, .raptl0n Don and Leon White figured out to , boi,P" roffr "Andy" a chance to win a prize, and . """urn is "F sin ta r,.. ,..uu not Tfnnrv Proclaims Saturday uncial Pet Parade Day PR0CLAMATION las. T PParTd7ir Umy s an" enSm.1S.providcd R and and over 2 H t our , place 11 our om.i lss,ers as oldsters' ar.d pets, KnT'ft f- Pets Is C h Bali- aren' ond Kthence ' their f&lrf'. "r of ne countv e Eugene Register-Guard and the leading merchants of Eugene for this celebration." (SIGNED) ELISHA LARGE, Mayor of Eugene. Lane county's ninth annual Pet Parade will close its entry books at 9 a. m. Friday, according to rilroninre rt tVin nnmial fun-fest which is expected to attract some 25nn entries nnri tnnusanas OI spectators here in Eugene Satur day morning Noah nr Bnrnum would be as founded . at the collection of domestic and semi-wild pets to be paraded on Eugene streets Satur day morning after the owners Vie fnr mnrn than 200 Valuable merchandise awards including SEE MAYOR PROCLAIMS PAGE 4 A tall pioneer garbed in pic turesaue fringed buckskins stand' ing guard as a stream of traffic pours into a replica of the block house entrance at the Lane county fairgrounds was announced by George Hitchcock as the winning entry in the Oregon Trail pageant poster contest Wednesday after noon. Artist of the poster and winner of the $15 first prize is David Stone. Other winners are: Kay Chin, serond nrize. $10: Lester Swag' gart, third prize, $5; and honor able mention, Myrtice E. Gibson, Alice Smiley, and Winlrea mi' verson. The Judges. N. B. zane, n. T. Wiltshire and Dale Cooley. de- clared they were surprised at the hion nualitv of work on the Con test and that entries on the whole wore much better than in 18J7. Thu new riosters together witn the winning posters from previous pageants have been on display in the window of Miller's depart ment store this week and ribbons will be nlaced on tne winners werinoadav afternoon. The dis play will remain in place for the omoinW nf the week. Winner David stone win wont with the pageant office in making a few minor changes in his entry t rtnnt it for the urlnted poster, 18 by 25 inches. Hundreds of these posters will be printed and used for advertising up and down the Pacific coast. Mill Worker Dies Following Accident Erwin Dyck, 29, of Dexter, died Wednesday morning at the Sacred Heart hospital from complications following injuries received in an accident at the Giustina Lumber company mill at Dexter last Fri day. His left leg was broken in the accident. . rirjcif was unmarried. He survived bv his parents, Mr. and Mn. Henrv Dyck of Syracuse, Kan.; two sisters, Mrs. Thelma Warner of Ulysses, Kan., and Miss vrnn Dvck. at home. He was horn Aoril 4, 1912, In Syracuse, Funeral services will be an' nounced by the Poole chapel. Morse Describes Bridges' Conduct SAN FRANCISCO. May 21 (u.ra in from 40 to 50 instances that Harry Bridges appeared be' fore Arbitrator Dean Wayne Morse at Pacific coast longshore arbitration ; . hearmg8,;the coast maritime union leader never once conducted himself as a com munist, Morse testified in San Francisco Tuesday. Morse appeared as a defense witness, but it was pointed out by Presiding Judge Charles Brown Sears, that the arbitrator had been subpoenaed for this purpose, and had no choice but to testify. Witness Morse said that in his capacity as arbitrator of coast maritime disputes, he found Bridges had acted as a good trade unionist who sincerely supports the democratic processes. Morse said Bridges always had taken the stand workers and em. ployers could bargain amicably; that Bridges favored negotiation of differences and occasionally urged arbitration; that Bridges never appeared to favor strikes merely for strikes' sake; that on the basis of the court's definition of a com munist as one who foments revo lutions, there was nothing to indi cate that he was a communist. Morse emphasized at the hear ing that he wanted the record to show that, he had no communist leanings himself; that he was tes tifying because he had to, and that he had had no meetings with Bridges other than at the mari time hearings and at one long shoremen's meeting, where he was PORTLAND, May 21. OF) The joint bid submitted by E. C. Hall of Eugene and J. C. Compton of McMinnville on paving and lighting work at Eugene's CAA airport was found to be the lowest of five submitted, the U. S. army en gineers' office said today. The contract division of the engineers' office reported that correction of some minor errors reduced the bid to $290,161.15, which placed it below the Farker-Schram, Portland, bid of $303,736. Formal award of contract will take place later. The Hall-Compton bid ori ginally was set at $308,761.15. Troop Truck Turns Over On Crooked Southern Oregon Highway; One Dead, 76 Injured ROSEBURG, Ore., May 21 (AP) Two accidents as the motor convoy- of the 7th infantry, en route from the Fort Lewis area to California, struck the crooked mountain roads of southern Oregon this morning left one dead, one report edly seriously hurt and 15 others hospitalized with unde termined injuries. - Fatally injured was Private E. Dow, Co. C, 7th infantry, who was crushed when a squad truck containing 24 men roll ed off the Pacific highway near the Douglas-Josephine county line about 9 a. m. Fifteen passengers in the truck, driven by Jerry Carney, Jr., Co. G, 47th QMC, one of the injured, were taken to the Josephine county Hospital at urants .f ass. .. The convoy unit Glider, Xhute Forces Pour On Island Of Crete Full Division Of Germans Involved In Attack Shifting Population Brinos Acute Problem For Eugene Schools A problem of shifting popula tion in Eugene which has' resulted in some of the grade schools bet ing crowded to overflowing while enrollment in others is dropping steadily now faces .the . school board, Dr. J. f. Cramer, super intendent, revealed Wednesday. . To meet this problem which may become even more acute in the face of proposed military ex pansion here the school board is faced with three alternatives: -(1) To close their eyes to the situation and Ignore the uneven spread of enrollment which finds as many as 45 children' to one room in one school and only -15 per teacher in another. ; 1 (2) Through careful study to map the city into districts and to make, compulsory the attendance of children at the school for their district. Dr. Cramer points but that Eugene's present system of permitting children to attend any school they wish is seldom follow ed by other cities of this size; or (3) Close the : Washington school and add extra rooms to the more crowded Lincoln and Con' don school buildings. The population bulge, according to ur. Cramer, has occurred large ly, in two parts of town, on. the southwest side in the neighbor- convoy unit was m command of Lieutenant By ron Burns. Private Ralph F. Kraby, MB Co. 209, 75th Infantry, of 4331 42nd Ave. S. Minneapolis, Minn., was reported seriously injured about 11 a. m. when his motorcycle crashed head-on into an automo bile occupied by the Rev. and Mrs. E. Mack. Prescott. Mien. ne accident occurred about three miles south of Canyonville. Kraby was brought by ambulance to the Vet erans', hospital at Roseburg. He was reported to have suffered in ternal injuries, the extent of which had not been determined. Occu pants of the automobile escaped injury. SEE MORSE STORY PAGE 2 Grand Jury Ordered To Meet Monday The' Lane county grand Jury will meet Monday, May 26, to take up accumulated criminal cases- and possibly others wherein arrests have not yet been made. Judge G. F. Skipworth in circuit court Wednesday issued an order to call the jurors together at 10 a. m. on that day. The work of the grand jury will be preliminary to the convening of the regular term of circuit court June me grand jurors, neio over from the last term of court, are Mary I. Dunn, Eugene; H. H. Drew, RFD 1, Junction City; Roy Jorgensen, Veneta; Dorothy Hesse, Eugene; Jack H. McDonald, Eu gene; Leota M. Neat, Eugene, and George P., Piatt., Thurston. Three Men Injured Three employes of the Rosboro Lumber company received minor injuries while riding the carriage at the company s mill at Spring field Tuesday evening. The car riage valve became stuck, throw ing Tommy Lee McCall, Eugene, from the carriage, and bruising the other two men, Kenneth War ren of Springfield and Raymond R. Adams of Eugene. The three men were taken to the Sacred Heart hospital. Mr. Adams and Mr. Warren were dismissed Tues day night, and Mr. McCall, Wed nesday morning. SEE SHIFTING STORY PAGE 2 : ; u Pendleton To Receive Air Troops June 3 PENDLETON. May 21 OP) The smallest city in the United States to receive an army air base Pendleton of round-up fame will receive first air corps, troops June 3, 4 and 5, it was announced today by Colonel Frank W. Wright, base commander. The units to arrive will total 915 officers and men. ' Salem Approves . Sewage Plant Bonds SALEM, May 21 W A S200.- 000 bond issue for a sewage -dis posal plant was approved by Salem voters yesterday, 1393 to 997. Only 13 per cent of the reg' Istered voters appeared at the polls. E. C. Hall Awarded Highway Contract SALEM, May 21 OP) The state highway commission award ed a contract today, as follows: Lane county grading and pav ing 1.27 miles of Eugene' 'over- crossing-7th avenue section of Pa cific highway.- Awarded to E. C Hall, Eugene, $70,851. MOVEMENT CONTINUES FORT LEWIS, May 21 OP)- Trucks and troops continued to pour out of the main gates, of Fort Lewis and Camp Murray at day break today to feed into a 600- mile army convoy, that: .will stretch to'Klamatli'Falls; Ore.; and" Weed, Calif., by tonight . Today s- contingent of a mod ern army on the march included "San . Francisco's own" 30th in fantry, which made the trip north only two months ago, to make the crack 3rd division a complete full-strength fighting unit Under the command of Lieut. Col. Troop Sidelights Soldiers Play Ball at School GLENWOOD, May 21. (Spe cial) A baseball game between the Glenwood school and the U. S. army was called Tuesday noon, not because of rain, but because members of. one team were afraid of being A. W. O. L. - The trucks of soldiers and equipment going from Fort Lewis to California were stop ped before the Glenwood school Tuesday noon by a traffic jam. The men, seeing the children playing ball apparently could not resist the opportunity for a game, - and swarmed over the field appropriating the bat, ball, and mitts. The game was hardly jinder way when - the soldiers were called back to the trucks to resume the journey. A number of the school boys suspect Hank Greenberg of be ing among their would-be op ponents,, although they did not see him. SEE TROOP TRUCK STORY PAGE 3 ,. ; Dal M. King Succeeds James T. Brand In Second Judicial Area SALEM, Ore., May 21 (U.R) Dal M. King, former state legis- later and present city attorney of Myrtle Point, has been appointed circuit judge of the Second judicial district to succeed James T. Brand. newly appointed to the state su preme court. The appointment was an nounced by Gov. Charles A. Sprague, who last week appointed Justice Brand to succeed the late Justice Henry Bean. Justice Brand will start his term on the high court on Monday. juage King will preside over the district made up of Douglas. Benton, Lincoln, Coos, Curry and Lane counties. On June 14, when legislative laws go into effect, Benton will be separated into new district with Linn county, and will no longer, be under the new judge. Judge King was born near Myr tle Point Jan. 14, 1893. He was graduated from the University of Oregon In; 1914, and served with the air crops as a lieutenant dur ing the world war. He was ad mitted to the Oregon bar in 1929,. His term will start as soon as Judge Brand's resignation lrom the post becomes official. BULLETIN! . LONDON, May 21. () A German attempt to land soldiers In Crete from small speed boats, in support of air-borne troops, has been defeated, authoritative British sources said tonight They gave no details. BREAKDOWN The . army stopped in Eugene Wednesday, briefly it is true, and only four trucks but onlookers were given a chance to chat with a few of the boys. Among those stopping was Lt. Arthur Murphy, son of Mrs. E. V. D. Murphy, of Eugene. The stop was caused when the brakes in one of the front wheels of a command car began to drag and the men signalled to the re pair car for some "'first aid." Out came tool boxes and off came the offending wheel and in a jiffy the damage was repaired. The command car was of a type known as a four-by-four, mean ing it has a four-wheel drive. Other vehicles stopping were a SEE TROOP SIDELIGHTS STORY PAGE 2 U. S. Asks Vkhy To Declare Intentions WASHINGTON, May 21 OP) The United States, it was learned authoritatively today, has made the equivalent of a diplomatic call on the Vichy government for a forthright declaration of France's future intentions in "collabora ting" with Germany. Vichy has been given to under stand, it was said, that it cannot hope to restore Franco-American relations to harmony unless it is first prepared to supply full as' surances in writing that France will hold rigidly to the. terms of the June, 1940 armistice in all subsequent dealings with the Third Reich. Analyst Sees Significance In Nazis' Landings in Crete By The Associated Press Adolf Hitler stepped up the lury of his aerial invasion of Crete to day, with 3.000 more nazi glider and parachute troops landing on tne ureek island after the entire contingent dropped from the skies yesterday was declared to have been killed or captured. me situation is well tn hand." the British said tersely, adding without details that German naval forces had also made an attempt to land troops in two places. Authoritative quarters in Lon don said a full German parachute division of 7,000 men was involved in the 2-day-old assault includ ing two infantry regiments, an artillery regiment armed with. 75 millimeter guns, an anti-tank bat talion with 37 mm. guns, a motor cycle reconnaissance group and other units. ...... .."3. . - Striking from Greek mainland bases, 75 to 100 miles away, Hit-1 ler's "Men from Mars"' were BSid to be using a fleet of 250-huge new Fockewulf air transports car rying 50 to 75 men each, and -an undisclosed number of gliders. So far, there were no reports that the Germans had landed air. borne tanks on Crete a feat first exploited by Soviet Russia in the Balkans. Defending the island, the gov ernment seat of King George II and a British' naval stronghold, were said to be two full Greek di visions and large numbers of Brit ish imperial troops under orders to fight "to the death with no thought of retirement." "Coast In" British reports said . the nazi gliders were cut loose from tow ing planes at a great height, many miles away from their objectives, and coasted in among the Grecian isle's olive groves and mountains without the tell-tale drone of motors. In Berlin, authorized quarters angrily denied Prime Minister Winston Churchill's assertion that 1,500 nazi 'chutists disguised in New Zealand battle-dress en gaged in the initial assault. The Germans said Churchill's remark was "infamous," and threatened that any brutal or Il legal treatment of nazi 'chutists would bring stern reprisals. The London radio broadcast a warning that "whoever, in viola tion of international law, fights in an enemy uniform, must expect to be shot at once when taken pris oner." A Berlin spokesman expressed satisfaction with the progress of the attack possibly a rehearsal for Hitler's long-heralded attempt to invade England and asserted that if King George II has not al ready fled Crete "you can be sure he's ready to jump." Previously, the king was said to have rejected pleas by his ministers that he leave the siege-. battered Island. The British reported that Ger man naval units tried to land troops at the western end of the island and in the Candia region. Missing Student Located In Nevada PORTLAND, May 21. OP) Laurence Moore, 20, University of Oregon student missing since Feb. 28, has been located at Las Vegas, Nev., police said last night. The youth is the son of Earl Moore, John Day, Ore, attorney, . By DEWITT MACKENZIE ' (AP War Analyst) The landing of 3,000. more Ger man parachute troops on the mountainous isle of Crete last night, accompanied by an effort to put nazi naval forces ashore, labels the invasion of this strategic Al lied base as no mere experimental affair but as a continuing opera tion which is growing in weight. It's unlike the Germans to start anything- they don't intend to fin ish, and their strategy as thus far disclosed Indicates an original in tention of pursuing the assaults progressively and with increasing intensity until a foothold is secur ed. ... This Is a variation of the well- known tactics long favored by the Germans when it is necessary to make frontal attacks with infan try. The idea is to jam a way through to the objective by sheer weight of numbers, thrown against the enemy in waves and mass for mation, without regard to loss of life among the assaulting forces. The Anglo-Greek defense claims to have killed or captured the in itial contingent of glider and par achute troops at the openinit of the battle of Crete yesterday, and to have control of the situation de veloping from the second landing. Details of the exact numbers of the opposing forces haven't been made public. The moral of this story of land ing Infantry from the air seems to me to lie In the demonstration BEE ANALYST STORY PAGE SEE GLIDER STORY PAGE 2 ' , Weather News (U. S. Weather Forecast) Oregon; Fair with higher tem perature and lower humidity to day, tonight and Thursday; mod erate to fresh north to east wind off the coast . , (Local Statistics) V. S. Weather Bureau Record: Minimum temperature, Wednes day, 42.4 degrees; maximum tem perature, Tuesday, 66 degrees; wind, at noon, Wednesday, north River Bureau Record! Stage ol Willamette river in Eugene at I . a. m. weanesaay, ,i oi a n tilth, tow I Tharidty 10:13 a. m. (M fcctV 10:1S p. m. (S.l tMtft .4il.m. 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